Candid Commerce | The Comfy

Welcome to Candid Commerce, a newsletter where I review customer journey’s of interesting eCommerce brands and brainstorm a (perhaps unconventional) go-to-market strategy for them.

Customer Journey Review:

Signup Forms:

  • Popups require SMS, forces people to leave the website to grab the code

  • No data collected

  • Popup only shows once

Product Pages:

  • No video to explain why the product was made (from the founder or otherwise)

  • No FAQs

Improvements:

  • Collect SMS post-purchase when their number is already on file!

  • Put the code on the thank you page instead of making people click off the website

  • Ask 3-4 questions (qualitative data) about why they are signing up

  • Show a secondary popup that has unique triggers to fire on product pages after about 45 seconds if they X out the home page form

  • Use an FAQ section to answer common questions or objections directly on the product page instead of making people open several pages to search for info about returns/exchanges/shipping

Go-to-Market Strategy:

What are the products, why do they matter, why should people care:

  • Oversized hoodie / Wearable blanket

  • They matter insofar as comfort while lounging around the house

Market Dynamics: What is the market for/the main reasons people buy these products?

  • Comfort around the house

  • Staying warm at home without having to layer, wear coats, or bury yourself under a stack of blankets

  • Mobile comfort

Consumer Behaviors: How do people typically experience these products for the 1st time?

  • Social media

  • Seeing friends and family wearing it (word of mouth)

  • Blogs or videos about seasonal styles

Aligning Market Dynamics & Consumer Behaviors with Market Inroads (AKA, “of the ways people experience new products, which can you list build into?”):

  • Build a list of people who make content about fashion and seasonal styles and pitch a co-marketing campaign featuring a giveaway to their engaged audience

  • Content creators who talk about ‘work from home’ essentials